Hillary Clinton. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton nearly included a policy in her presidential campaign that would have given ordinary citizens regular checks just for being alive.
In her new book "What Happened," and in a recent subsequent interview with Vox Editor-in-Chief Ezra Klein , Clinton explains how she seriously considered including a version of universal basic income — a radical solution to poverty, currently being tested in cities and countries around the world — as one of her platforms in the 2016 US presidential election.
The platform would have been called "Alaska for America," in homage […]
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